“Would you be surprised if this person were not alive 12 months from now?” 

Known as “the surprise question,” this question along with clinical risk calculators help doctors make decisions around care for patients near the end of life. Increasingly, clinicians are also using AI models to predict remaining life expectancy and better inform palliative care decisions. 

COLLEGE PARK, Md. – America’s population is the oldest it has ever been.

It’s a common “medical” complaint: You switch to a new doctor and find that electronic health records from your old clinic or from urgent care or specialist visits have not moved with you – leading to a déjà vu of filling out the same forms you’ve filled out a hundred times before.

COLLEGE PARK, M.d. – People in America adopt hundreds of thousands of children every year, but not all of them receive health insurance once adopted into their second home.

The perinatal healthcare system in the United States is not prepared to treat patients impacted by wildfire smoke in a timely manner, according to a first study on the issue.

UMD School of Public Health's Department of Health Policy and Management recently hosted the spring 2025 Universitas 21 International Health Research Exchange (U21HREx) Symposium, bringing together health scholars and practitioners from Ireland, Germany and the United States to address critical issues in health systems strengthening and resilience.

COLLEGE PARK, MD – A new study out today in JAMA Health Forum is the first to show that Blac

A new study out today in Health Affairs shows that state-funded health insurance coverage of abortion is a crucial factor in access, particularly for Black and Hispanic people and people in low-income communities.

Dr. Mika Hamer is about to go ghost hunting.

This week Fortune magazine named the University of Maryland School of Public Health’s online master’s in public health program the best in the nation for 2025.